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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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I don't look like who I am.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Morning always comes.
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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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